Why seed VCs are walking away from hot AI deals

But even still, you know, if you take your random person of the mill who comes out of OpenAI or Anthropic and wants to raise, you know, $1,520,000,000, I'm not in those either.

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But even still, you know, if you take your random person of the mill who comes out of OpenAI or Anthropic and wants to raise, you know, $1,520,000,000, I'm not in those either. Let's bring it down even to the ones who are doing raising 8 to 10,000,000. I at 40 to 50 post, which is becoming very common. I probably don't wanna be in those either. So I do think there's a question of why would you, as a seed manager, compete for these things? I think most people have gotten very

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A VC explains why they're avoiding even the most hyped AI startup deals, including those from OpenAI and Anthropic alumni raising $15-20M or smaller $8-10M rounds at $40-50M post-money valuations. The speaker questions whether seed managers should compete for these overpriced opportunities at all.

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This contrarian perspective challenges the conventional wisdom of chasing hot AI deals, offering insight into disciplined seed investing strategy.

23:39 - 24:1637scontrarian take

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